History of Medicine

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Gottingen, 1756. Copperplate engraving. National Library of Medicine.

Albrecht von Haller(1708-1777)[anatomist]

C.J. Rollinus[artist]

Contemporaries praised the Swiss anatomist Haller for his finely detailed illustrations of finely dissected subjects. This dissection of the arteries of the face was copied and reprinted in numerous other works of anatomy.